In this stunning autobiography, former FBI undercover agent Robert K. Wittman details his 20-year career investigating the murky world of art theft. AIn this stunning autobiography, former FBI undercover agent Robert K. Wittman details his 20-year career investigating the murky world of art theft. Adopting the false but carefully documented identity of Bob Clay, a shady art dealer with a taste for contraband, Wittman successfully infiltrated domestic and international criminal networks to recover more than $225 million worth of stolen cultural property — items ranging from a Rembrandt self-portrait to an original copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights.
Wittman also came closer than anyone else in the world to unraveling the mysterious 1990 robbery at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. His encounters with criminals closely associated with the theft make for some of the most riveting chapters in the book, providing new and surprising information about the heist and the probable whereabouts of the Gardner's missing Rembrandt and Vermeer...
I recently read and was fascinated by The Question of Corvo, which is a book about the author of Hadrian the Seventh (a man named Frederick Rolfe who I recently read and was fascinated by The Question of Corvo, which is a book about the author of Hadrian the Seventh (a man named Frederick Rolfe who adopted the name Baron Fr. Corvo to imply that he was both a priest and a nobleman). I'm looking forward to this!...more
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